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Are we a more accepting society than ever before? Is there no longer a them and us division between the disabled and everybody else? The Politics of Down Syndrome looks at how we got to where we are today, from the racist roots of its identification to the rising number of abortions today. Down syndrome is the most common syndrome in the world, shared by all classes and races, yet it's one we rarely address our feelings about, head on. This book, although direct and questioning, takes a positive view about where we go from here and the opportunity for society to fully enjoy the benefits of be

<i>Objective:</i> To investigate the effect of parity on Down syndrome (DS). <i>Methods:</i> The study was conducted on data from Northeast Italy (NEI) (1981–1996) and Sicily (ISMAC) (1991–1996) Congenital Malformation Registries. In these areas, all DS births are recorded and confirmed by chromosomal analysis; the NEI Registry also registers pregnancy terminations (TOPs) after prenatal diagnosis of DS. In order to estimate the effect of parity independently of the mother's age and to reduce the truncation effect, different age classes and three classes of parity (1, 2–4, >4) were defined. <i>Results:</i> The study sample consisted of 1,088 consecutive newborns and 169 consecutive fetuses affected by DS. In both NEI and ISMAC samples, we found a significantly increased risk of having a DS child for multiparas ≥35 years of age. In the NEI sample, the inclusion of TOP data did not seem to modify this finding. In the ISMAC sample, a significantly reduced risk for primiparas was found at all ages. <i>Conclusions:</i> Our data confirm a higher risk of having a DS child in women with parity >4. As this effect is evident only in women ≥35 years age, its practical impact is null because these women are usually offered prenatal diagnosis in any case. However, the mechanisms involved, if this association is true, are very intriguing and the observation should stimulate scientific studies allowing a better knowledge of the nondisjunction mechanism.

Im Textteil unveränderte Auflage des in BA 1/94 besprochenen Titels. Der Adressenteil wurde überarbeitet, hier gibt es wichtige Ergänzungen. Wo diesem große Bedeutung beigemessen wird, muß die alte Auflage ersetzt werden. Das Buch wird weiterhin empfohlen für betroffene Eltern und interessierte Laien. Wichtig sind die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungsberichte betroffener Eltern. (2) (LK/W: Scharmann)

Menschen mit Down-Syndrm - sie begegnen uns, wir begegnen ihnen, sie begegnen einander - im Leben und im vorliegenden Buch. Dieses Buch soll ein Beitrag sein, Begegnungen besser gelingen zu lassen, Eltern zu helfen, sich selbst zu orientieren und Angehörige und Freunde zu informieren, Menschlichkeit und Toleranz in unserer Gesellschaft zu stärken.